[Haskell] First call for participation for IFL 2019 (Implementation and Application of Functional Languages)

2019-08-26 Thread Jurriaan Hage
Hello,

Please, find below the first call for participation for IFL 2019.
Please forward these to anyone you think may be interested.
Apologies for any duplicates you may receive.

best regards,
Jurriaan Hage
Publicity Chair of IFL



IFL 2019

31st Symposium on Implementation and Application of Functional Languages


National University of Singapore
September 25th-27th, 2019

  http://2019.iflconference.org



### Scope

The goal of the IFL symposia is to bring together researchers actively
engaged
in the implementation and application of functional and function-based
programming languages. IFL 2019 will be a venue for researchers to present
and
discuss new ideas and concepts, work in progress, and publication-ripe
results
related to the implementation and application of functional languages and
function-based programming.

Topics of interest to IFL include, but are not limited to:

- language concepts
- type systems, type checking, type inferencing
- compilation techniques
- staged compilation
- run-time function specialization
- run-time code generation
- partial evaluation
- (abstract) interpretation
- metaprogramming
- generic programming
- automatic program generation
- array processing
- concurrent/parallel programming
- concurrent/parallel program execution
- embedded systems
- web applications
- (embedded) domain specific languages
- security
- novel memory management techniques
- run-time profiling performance measurements
- debugging and tracing
- virtual/abstract machine architectures
- validation, verification of functional programs
- tools and programming techniques
- (industrial) applications


### Keynote Speaker

* Olivier Danvy, Yale-NUS College


### Submissions and peer-review

Differently from previous editions of IFL, IFL 2019 solicits two kinds of
submissions:

* Regular papers (12 pages including references)
* Draft papers for presentations ('weak' limit between 8 and 15 pages)

Regular papers will undergo a rigorous review by the program committee, and
will
be evaluated according to their correctness, novelty, originality,
relevance,
significance, and clarity. A set of regular papers will be conditionally
accepted for publication. Authors of conditionally accepted papers will be
provided with committee reviews along with a set of mandatory revisions.
Regular papers not accepted for publication will be considered as draft
papers, at the request of the author.

Draft papers will be screened to make sure that they are within the scope of
IFL, and will be accepted for presentation or rejected accordingly.

Prior to the symposium:
  Authors of conditionally accepted papers and accepted presentations will
  submit a pre-proceedings version of their work that will appear in the
draft
  proceedings distributed at the symposium. The draft proceedings does not
  constitute a formal publication.

  We require that at least one of the authors present the work at IFL 2019.

After the symposium:

  Authors of conditionally accepted papers will submit a revised versions of
  their paper for the formal post-proceedings.
  The program committee will assess whether the mandatory revisions have
been
  adequately addressed by the authors and thereby determines the final
  accept/reject status of the paper.
  Our interest is to ultimately accept all conditionally accepted papers.
If you
  are an author of a conditionally accepted paper, please make sure that you
  address all the concerns of the reviewers.


  Authors of accepted presentations will be given the opportunity to
incorporate
  the feedback from discussions at the symposium and will be invited to
submit a
  revised full article for the formal post-proceedings.
  The program committee will evaluate these submissions according to their
  correctness, novelty, originality, relevance, significance, and clarity,
and
  will thereby determine whether the paper is accepted or rejected.


### Publication

The formal proceedings will appear in the International Conference
Proceedings Series of the ACM Digital Library.

At no time may work submitted to IFL be simultaneously submitted to other
venues; submissions must adhere to ACM SIGPLAN's republication policy:


 http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Policies/Republication


### Important dates

Submission of regular papers:   June 15, 2019
Submission of draft papers: August1, 2019
Regular papers notification:August1, 2019
Regular draft papers notification:  August7, 2019
Deadline for early registration:August   31, 2019
Submission of pre-proceedings version:  September

[ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.8.1 is now available

2019-08-26 Thread Ben Gamari

Hello everyone,

The GHC team is pleased to announce the release candidate for GHC 8.8.1.
The source distribution, binary distributions, and documentation are
available at

https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/8.8.1

This release is the culmination of over 3000 commits by over one hundred
contributors and has several new features and numerous bug fixes
relative to GHC 8.6:

 * Visible kind applications are now supported (GHC Proposal #15)

 * Profiling now works correctly on 64-bit Windows (although still may
   be problematic on 32-bit Windows due to platform limitations; see
   #15934)

 * A new code layout algorithm for amd64's native code generator
   significantly improving the runtime performance of some kernels

 * The introduction of a late lambda-lifting pass which may reduce
   allocations significantly for some programs.

 * Further work on Trees That Grow, enabling improved code re-use of the
   Haskell AST in tooling

 * Users can write `forall` in more contexts (GHC Proposal #7)

 * The pattern-match checker is now more precise in the presence of
   strict fields with uninhabited types.

 * A comprehensive audit of GHC's memory ordering barriers has been
   performed, resulting in a number of fixes that should significantly
   improve the reliability of programs on architectures with
   weakly-ordered memory models (e.g. PowerPC, many ARM and AArch64
   implementations).

 * A long-standing linker limitation rendering GHCi unusable with
   projects with cyclic symbol dependencies has been fixed (#13786)

 * Further work on the Hadrian build system

 * Countless miscellaneous bug-fixes

Unfortunately, due to a build issue (#17108) found late in the release process
i386 Windows builds are currently unavailable. These will be provided in
the coming weeks.

As always, if anything looks amiss do let us know.

Happy compiling!

Cheers,

- Ben


[1] 
https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/8.8.1/docs/html/users_guide/8.8.1-notes.html


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